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It has the misfortune of working correctly, as opposed to ref or UNIVERSAL::isa().

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Re^4: Is there a way to find out what kind of ref an object is? (isa)
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Dec 08, 2005 at 10:36 UTC
    It has the misfortune of working correctly, as opposed to ref or UNIVERSAL::isa().

    Oh I do agree that the number of times that you'd actually want to use reftype, outside pure curiosity and debugging, is pretty darn tiny. However, on the odd occasion when I do need it I find it fortunate to have something that does exactly the job I want and is named properly :-)

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